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Literally posting Nazi propaganda. Both of the NSDAP and Neo Nazis after the war. You can do better. The way you frame the transfers - without mentioning the alternative of death etc. - is the big problem. Don’t weaken your retelling and analysis by such antisemitic errors you could fix by investing more time.
Quickly after the grab of power the NSDAP started to further physical violence, political, economic and financial repression against their declared enemies. Which includes people assigned as Jewish, socialists and others. The most embellished scape goat were the Jews (as declared earlier with that I mean assigned Jewish).
The freezing of people’s money, arisation (“Arisierung”), and alike were policies implemented early on (a fraction off the money stolen was what was allowed to leave the country), the stochastic physical violence of the years before 1933 (which was still partially planned by the nazi policies) was supplemented with structured more intense violence. This includes the construction of concentration camps, which political enemies face fast, too, and multiple aligning plans, including several kinds of physical extermination, but were flanked with PR of being law abiding, PR of not having laws that undue restrict Jews.
In fact the Nazis took a cut from money transfers (else they wouldn’t unfreeze money, or effectively force family members to go into debt to get Ausreisevisa (passports allowing to leave the country)). The majority of the in antiemetic propaganda (literally the term the Nazis used) termed capitalist visas was used by people fleeing their physical extermination, going deeply into debt too acquire the necessary money to pay to leave the country.
Within the Jewish community the question of whether one ought to work together with authorities which were already crushing down on Jews and in later phases openly exterminated Jews was widely discussed. The voices which spoke against taking refugee were when the people didn’t flee silenced in the vast majority within the Shoa. The visas were a way out for some.
Are the war the Nazis started to produce contradicting multifaceted antiseptic propaganda and tried to combine antisemitism, anti brit, “anti colonial” (well nazi Germany at the good colonial power), nationalist, warrior ethos of Islam (without any deep understanding of Islam) bits and distributed them within the MENA region.
Like in plenty regions the Nazis has power a part of the population did actively further those propaganda items. While there were of course also people joining the Allied forces military power (including the British military which was still essential for colonialist power projection), plenty did join the Nazis, too, or took military and political courses in the third Reich. The discussion in other words ought to not paint broad strokes, but look at the mechanisms which furthered sub classes and differentiation of political groups (secular, socialist, anti colonial, nationalist, religious, Islamist etc.)
Within the region there are plenty examples of helping nazi policies (i.e. expropriation of Jews or even deportations), while in North African Holocaust discourse the exceptions are highlighted and repressions diminished. During the war 450k Jews lived in northern Africa. I want to note that while the intellectual sphere in Egypt was diverse, too, the public intellectuals were establishing good collective antifascism, sadly with less socialist influences than could be hoped for at that time (ie “DEMON AND INFIDEL Egyptian Intellectuals Confronting Hitler and Nazism during World War II by Israel Gershoni”)
A side note: During the 1930s the Soviet Union would send socialists and Jews back to Germany, leading to their imprisonment, torture and extermination. Why that happened is a complex question and neither previous Russian and then Soviet antisemitism in the wide population are a single explanation (we remember Lenin’s speech against antisemitism), nor antisemitism of the party or it’s leadership explain it enough. The pressure to remain somewhat entangled with the Nazis economically during preparation for war also played a role in accepting Nazi demands.
Imagine how much more strongly those real power decisions have to be done when you are within the grasp of the Nazi regime and want to get your family, loved ones and family out. A reading of the “Kapitaltransferabkommen” without context is easily repeating Nazi propaganda and we can do better.
Of course the Jewish refugees from the regime had a right to flee and societies and states which hindered them (or turned back ships of refugees) did further the Holocaust.
What about summer not being at the same time everywhere? Which hemisphere do you wanna favor? What kind of problems do vacation days in summer create in agriculture?